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Re: traceroute vs. traceroute6



On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:34:39PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 01:47:30AM +0200, Robert Luberda wrote:
> > But I know that on most unices traceroute is considered to be an
> > admistrative tool and is in /usr/sbin directory. So traceroute6 probably
> > shoud be moved to /usr/sbin too.
> 
> Since it's setuid in Debian, it's quite clear that it is not considered to
> be an admin-only tool. It is kept in /usr/sbin not for the sole purpose of
> emulating other Unices, but because people's scripts may break if it is
> moved to /usr/bin.
> 
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What about symlinks? ...

Timshel

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